Memo Benassi

Memo Benassi
Memo Benassi on stage (1942)
Born	21 June 1886 Sorbolo, Emilia-Romagna Italy
Died	24 February 1957 (aged 70) Bologna, Emilia-Romagna Italy
Other names	Domenico Benassi
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1916–1955 (film)

Memo Benassi (21 June 1886 – 24 February 1957) was an Italian film actor who appeared in more than forty films in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the composer Beethoven in the 1942 film Rossini.^[1]

Selected filmography

• The Love Letters of Baroness S (1924)
• The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925)
• The Old Lady (1932)
• The Lucky Diamond (1933)
• The Haller Case (1933)
• Everybody's Woman (1934)
• Conquest of the Air (1936)
• Scipione l'africano (1937)
• Princess Tarakanova (1938)
• Tonight at Eleven (1938)
• The Two Orphans (1942)
• Rossini (1942)
• Fedora (1942)
• Measure for Measure (1943)
• The Tyrant of Padua (1946)
• The Affairs of Messalina (1951)
• Red Shirts (1952)
• Adriana Lecouvreur (1955)

References

1. Mathew & Walton p.337

External links

• Memo Benassi at the Internet Movie Database

Bibliography

• Mathew, Nicholas & Walton, Benjamin. The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini: Historiography, Analysis, Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 2013.